Why are there so many posts about...

Marenta

Why are there so many posts about women?

I suppose if I ever needed relationship advice about men, I could come and ask here...

Evo

The forum is mostly male.

Marenta

I've noticed, scary.

SHISHKABOB

why D:

zoobyshoe

It's not a male design, if that is what seems scary. Women seem naturally to have less interest in math and physics. The men who do are not particularly happy about that.

Marenta

Or, I could have meant that it is scary due to the fact that I know oodles of female science/math lovers; however, it had occured to me that while they are out there, they tend to not flaunt the fact they're female and they don't travel cyberspace all that often to find conversation. I, myself, only found this forum because I was looking for something in particular related to NPTU and just happened to stumble across it. I decided it was interesting enough and joined.

I suppose though, that the forums (or blogs, or newsletters, or whathaveyou) for SWE are chalk FULL of women.

zoobyshoe

It's all about the ratio. Apparently there is always a higher proportion of men in math/science classes. For every unit oodle of women in math/science it seems there may be as much as an oodle² of men, though I don't know why.

Marenta

The debate about the men-to-women ratio in any sort of technical field has been ongoing since they allowed women higher education.

I will note that all of my math teachers in college were women, my chemistry teacher was female, and only my physics instructor was male.

Pengwuino

According to a statistically significant number of cartoons, 99.9% of men in scientific fields have no social intelligence when it comes to dealing with the opposite sex. Thus, they turn to the internet for help

zoobyshoe

Time for an informal poll:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthr...52#post3846652

mcknia07

"Nerdy" men tend to need more help with seeking women. They appear to be more shy as well, from what I've noticed atleast.

Jimmy Snyder

Because women are more complicated than men.

gentryliving

I totally agree! But i am not saying that i hate women. In fact i love to talk about women.

TheStatutoryApe

There is the internet flirt factor. Online many men will glom onto any person professing themselves to be female and practically harass them with various forms of "flirtation". I've known a number of females that specifically avoid identifying themselves as such online because of this. I've become rather self conscious about this wondering if the females I interact with are thinking I am just trying to chat them up.

Also, for the relationship forum in particular, men tend to be more interested in "going after" women while women seem to be more interested in trying to get the men coming after them to go away.

20Tauri

That's kind of sexist, don't you think? I don't like the idea that women are somehow more complex or difficult to deal with simply by virtue of our femaleness.

zoobyshoe

Are you maintaining men are just as complex, or that women are simpler than men perceive them to be?

20Tauri

I'm maintaining that you can't make generalizations about how simple or complex any person is based simply on biological sex.